WHAS (AM)
WHAS (840 kHz) is an AM radio station owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. and licensed to Louisville, Kentucky. Its studios are located in the Louisville enclave of Watterson Park, and the transmitter site is in Long Run, in far east Jefferson County. First licensed in July 1922, it is the oldest radio station in Kentucky.
| Broadcast area | Louisville metropolitan area |
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| Frequency | 840 kHz |
| Branding | Newsradio 840 WHAS |
| Programming | |
| Format | News/talk |
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| WAMZ, WKJK, WKRD, WSDF, WNRW, WQMF, WTFX-FM | |
| History | |
First air date | July 18, 1922 |
Call sign meaning | "We Have A Signal" (a backronym, as the call was randomly assigned by the government) |
| Technical information | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 11934 |
| Class | A |
| Power | 50,000 watts unlimited |
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| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | whas |
WHAS is a clear channel station, operating around the clock on 840 kHz with 50,000 watts. Its daytime signal can be heard in almost all of central Kentucky, as well as large slices of Ohio and Indiana, providing city-grade coverage as far east as Lexington, as far south as Bowling Green, and as far north as Cincinnati. Its nighttime signal can be heard with a good radio in most of the continental United States and much of Canada.
Since September 2007 WHAS has also broadcast full-time using the HD Radio IBOC digital radio system, following an initial testing period which started in 2006. HD Radio has since been turned off. Prior to 1995, WHAS broadcast in C-QUAM AM stereo.